Summary
Marco Birck is an operations and product leader with 10 years of experience building go-to-market platforms for tourism and retail, currently serving as COO and partner at Planne where he oversees marketing, sales and customer excellence for clients like Alpen Park and Hard Rock Café Gramado. He combines startup founder instincts from his time as CEO of Elixir AI—where he led sales, fundraising and product pivots—with academic depth in AI research (deep and reinforcement learning) from UFPel. Skilled in Lean Startup, Design Thinking and agile delivery, Marco translates research-driven ML knowledge into scalable commercial products and distribution platforms. He also contributes to entrepreneurial ecosystems through Ciclo Empreendedor and has hands-on experience managing complex customer projects and phased company exits. A practical problem-solver, he’s known for sustaining low team turnover while steering teams through product-market discovery and operational scaling.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal de Pelotas
Fellowship LF3, Fellowship LF3 at Latitud
English, French